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“The truth is: we are all fucking up our lives in one way or another.

Some of us are in the wrong relationships, unwilling to face the heartache that comes with choosing ourselves.

Some of us are in the wrong careers, feeling like we’ve

I haven’t had a doll since I was a girl. But as soon as I saw this Amma doll in a shop in Jaipur, I knew she was coming home with me. I love seeing her every day and her sleeping next to us every night. She has become a kind of guardian for us.

At the start of ninth grade, I reinvented myself.

The year before, I was the girl who thought she wouldn’t make it to sixteen. Depression had become my identity, and suicide felt like the proof of it.

I even made a clay gravestone for myself

I love how easily I shapeshift, how I can slide in and out of realities, and how I can move through different versions of myself. I thrive in my multiplicity. This girl here, on the streets of Mylapore, Chennai, is gone. Now she eats street corner ta

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